"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
08/08/2015 at 08:34 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
08/08/2015 at 08:34 • Filed to: None | 1
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This obnoxious little bugger is the Idle Air Control Valve off of a Honda Civic. Specifically it is the same model part that comes off of my Honda Civic. Ever since I swapped engines in my Civic three or four months ago this part has not worked right. I had no idle air control so when the car was cold it would idle too low (300-400RPM) and when I turned on the A/C the car wouldn’t idle correctly at all (nearly die, turn off the compressor, rev back up to 800, compressor switches on, car nearly dies, repeat). I tried every fix I could find: swapped valves with another car, cleaned the valve, bled my coolant system multiple times, played with ALL of the idle adjustment screws. Nothing worked. Yesterday I finally took the valve itself apart. It’s basically a chunk of metal with a shutter inside with a permanent magnet on the end of the shaft, with a completely sealed plastic controller (the black part) that screws on the end and has electromagnets in it, making the whole thing a brushless motor with 90-ish degrees of rotation. I moved the shutter back and forth a few times until the movement was much smoother and free of grit, then popped it back on the car. Voila, I now have A/C. Furthermore, I have an incredibly good A/C since the Canadian Civic didn’t come with A/C standard so this unit was several years younger than the car. It’s silly cold and I love it. Car is a lot happier now, too.
MM54
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/08/2015 at 08:43 |
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Nice job! Bad IACs are typically not much fun. It will be interesting to see how long your fix lasts, though. Its possible it gets stuck again after a little while.
When the IAC was failing in my crown vic, the made a sound like a goose playing a french horn at idle, that alone was enough to get me to replace it (not to mention the really high idle in gear)
brianbrannon
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/08/2015 at 12:22 |
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Was the other one you swapped it with bad also?